Taxonomy of meanings for 靡:　　

  • 靡 mǐ (OC: mralʔ MC: mɯiɛ) 文彼切 上 廣韻：【無也偃也又靡曼美色也説文曰披靡也文彼切七 】
    • TENUOUS
      • vadNtenuous, slight
      • generalised>WEAK
          • inchoative>BEGIN
              • feature of what begins>SMALL
                • vadNslight, small
                • vibe slight, small
                • vifigurativebe subtle and beyond human grasp
            • typical action>CONFORM
                • to orders>OBEY
                  • causative: physial>BEND
                    • vtoNbend (grass)
                    • vtoNpassiveget bent
                    • intensitive>TWIST
                      • vtoNbend downwards (banners)
                      • causing harm>>INJURE
                        • vtoNtorment
              • transitive>LACK
                • vtoNlack, remain withoutCH
                • lack support>>FALL
                    • generalised>>MISTAKE
                        • temporal>>DELAY
                          • vtoNdelay??
                      • and be damaged>COLLAPSE
                          • resultative> >>SPREAD
                            • liquids>SPLASH
                              • gifts>GENEROUS
                                • vtoNbe generous to
                                • excessive>EXTRAVAGANT
                                  • vadNextravagant
                                  • viactbe extravagant, conduct oneself in an arrogant manner
                                  • vtoNbe extravagant in the ujse of, waste away
                                  • vadNfigurativeliterary: effusiveness; languorCH
                                • generalised>GIVE
                                  • vtoNYI: confer; distribute more HF
                                • aesthetically>BEAUTIFUL
                          • grammaticalised>NOT
                            • npro{SUBJ}+V{PRED}subjectno one
                            • padVarchaic/poetic: not; in no way
                            • npro.adN: V{PRED}no NCH
                      • CITIES
                        • =為ACT
                        • 靡 ｍｉ２《集韻》忙皮切，平支明。
                        • 靡 ｍａ２《集韻》謨加切，平麻明。
                        • mǐIMPROVE
                          • vtoNconsistently and constantly improve step by stepLZ
                          • nabconsistent and constant improvementLZ
                        • mǐINFLUENCE
                          • nablong-lasting influence on a thing or person exerted by its/his environment, bad, good, or neitherLZ
                        • mǐNONE
                          • npro.adN: Vno NCH

                        Additional information about 靡

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                          Criteria
                        • RESPECT

                          1. The current general word for typically public respectful attitudes and actions is jìng 敬 (ant. màn 慢 "fail to show proper respect for").

                          2. Gōng 恭 (ant. jù 倨 "behave in an informal impolite way") refers specifically to private proper polite and respectful attitudes shown to a deserving person.

                          3. Zūn 尊 (ant. bǐ 鄙 "consider as not worthy of any veneration or respect") refers to psychological public or private respect for someone in a very exalted social, cultural, religious and/or political position, and the degree of public respect is much greater that that in jìng 敬 and reaches into the past to ancestors.

                          4. Chóng 崇 and zōng 宗 refers to distant and typically religious veneration of a spirit or person very highly regarded. SHI 靡神不宗 "there are no spirits which we have not honoured"

                          5. Lǐ 禮 (ant. màn 慢 "treat without proper ritual respect") refers to a proper show of public demonstrative respect for someone on the part of a host or a superior.

                          6. Wèi 畏 (ant. xiá 狎 "treat without the proper respect due to someone in high position, treat with improper familiarity") refers to awe-struck respect for a person in authority.

                          7. Lóng 隆 typically refers to due diligent respect for abstract values.

                          8. Qīn 欽 is an archaic courtly word referring to formal conformity with the rules of polite respect for superiors on public occasions.

                          9. Zhī 知 focusses on proper appreciation of a person, accompanied by recognition of that person's worth.

                        • SMALL

                          1. The dominant quite general word is xiǎo 小 (ant. dà 大 "big"), and this word refers to both physical size and abstract importance.

                          2. Miǎo 眇 / 渺 and mǐ 靡 (ant. páng 龐 "big") refers to extremely small size of something.

                          3. Xì 細 (ant. jù 巨 "enormous") is sometimes used to refer to something being small or of slight importance. See TENUOUS

                          NB: ǎi 矮 "not tall, of slight height, of low build" is post-Buddhist late colloquial.

                        • EXTRAVAGANT

                          1. Sh1ē 奢 (ant. jiǎn 儉 "parsimonious") is excessive conspicuous consumption or use of money for one's private purposes, with or without demonstrative large scale extravagance, and the word is not necessarily pejorative.

                          2. Chǐ 侈 (ant. jié 節 "moderate in the use of resources") always refers to manifestly reprehensible extravagance with no connotation of laudable generosity.

                          3. Mǐ 靡 (ant. jiǎn 簡 "unextravagant") is pointless and wasteful luxuriousness, and the term is always strongly pejorative.

                          4. Huá 華 is purely demonstrative conspicuous and aesthetically elaborate consumption.

                          5. Tài 泰 (ant. yuē 約 "restrained in the use of resources") is grandiose and demonstrative extravagance.

                          6. Yín 淫 can come to refer to extravagance as a symptom of general indulgence.

                          Word relations
                        • Assoc: (TENUOUS)薄/TENUOUS Báo 薄 (ant. hòu 厚 "substantial") refers to anything thin or slight.